The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-01


fH5f the federals press.
The Union troops, imreriled, found
That enemies were all around;
Yet boldly they remain.
The noble Zook has met his fate
Endeavoring to animate
His soldiers, he was slain.
Now to the rescue Ayres leads
His veterans, and men and steeds
Upon the foemen rush;
Stern and united, down they bear,
Upon the adversaries, there
Rank, file, before them crush
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+ The loud reports aro heard aiar
With feelings of alright;
The citizens, with vague alarm,
Know not what CONSERVATION, harm
May whelm them from the fight.
/. Here may the image Of the mind
Some vast, sublime resemblance find
natures ruin wild,
len from two lofty mountain sleeps
avalanche from each one sweeps,
IN awful chaos piled.
The peaks are hidden in the caps
OF the black surging cloud that wraps
The SUBMITS in its folds;
And lightnings flash, and thunders crash,
And hail-stones into valleys dash,
And Fright dread reign holds.
And down, down, down the streams are borne,
Gigantic trees, uprooted, torn
To splinters, rocks o'erturned;
Cliffs topping Der to fragments ground,
With deafening, terrific sound;
Cabins to cinders burned.
Their course no barrier to control,
The rushing crushing torrents roll
Together in the pass
Village with all life's stirring cheers,
Hopes, joys, ambitions, disappears,
Ingulfed beneath the mass.
Led on by Perry, Wilcox, Wright,
Confederates their strength unite
The central line to breast;
Across the plain, toward the hill
They go, ascend the slope until
They have attained the crest.
The batteries they are upon;
They even seize and turn gun
Upon the Union vap-->-
carnival nOluS
And the assaulting columns pierce
The ranks, fight man to man.
Stand and defend your native state
We Pennsylvanians! nor abate
Your strength till Triumph smile
Men of the Bay state, of the West,
Men of the Empire state, that crest
Hold with your rahks and files
Upon them, Webb give them the steel
charge! let the invader feel
The force of patriot arms!
Down upon Wright with all your might
Down upon Wilcox put to flight
His Alabama swarmsi
They bear upon them at the front;
With utmost violence the brunt
Rolls upon right and left.
y They stand awhile; they're put to rout;
The vlctors follow with shout
The columns sorely cleft.
The grays retreat across the plain;
They rest upon their arms again
The battle to renew,
Though thinned by slaughter, held at bay,
They yet prepare another day
Their efforts to renew.
johnson is at the right extreme,
While at the center, left the stream
ofwar flows and recedes.
His regiments advanced, but found
Artillery ranged all around
hight his way impedes.
The first brigade that was deployed
fire encountered that destroyed
A large part of the van;
Jones, the commander, wounded, falls,
Confusion rank and file appalls
And the red currents ran.
Yet not by fire and blood dismayed,
And not by rugged ground delayed,
They forward worked their way.
Each side for combat was arrayed;
The fierceness of the strife was stayed
BY the near close Of day.
Still stubbornly struggle ragged,
Where some advanced detachment waged
] A fight at quarters close;
Among the trees, rocks, and ravines
Are rife crashes, saber sheens.
And trampling ger the moss.
he su.1n i. in the west
he mountain crest,
aped arrows crowd